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Favourite albums of 2023

Each year, I draft up a definite list of albums that released in the year in question which I've enjoyed. It It's mainly for personal use as its big fun to look back to previous years and see what made me happy, and also creates structure in the chaos of wishlists, music folders, tracklists of radio shows and all the to-do-listening bookmarks.

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upsammy – Strange Meridians

a centrifugal spin collapses inward sucked into the ground vibrating with the quake beneath the crust the folding repeats itself […]

About

topo2 is an adventurous electronic music label. Its sole purpose is to be enthusiastic about electronic music, not limited to topo2 releases.

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Sustainability

Doing vinyl in any sustainable way is quite simply impossible. With topo2 we try to do it as good as possible, meaning that all topo2 released are produced locally and pressed on ICCS-certified bio-vinyl.

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Streaming Policy

At topo2 we like record shops, tracklists, labels, artists, djs, dancers, clubs, EPs, LPs, vinyl, 33rpm, festivals, radio, and on and on. The list of stuff we don't like is quite short: Spotify and all their streaming platform buddies.

Radio shows

Monthly radioshow on Echobox hosted by topo2 founder Bert de Rooij, juxtaposing music from every corner in the “experimental” electronic music spectrum.